Then there are the 120 V ones, with U.S. plugs, mostly run through a 200W transformer with U.S input and output plugs. Finally, there's the espresso machine, Italian-made but bought in Zabars, with it's own 1.500 W transformer with a European plug.
The last thing I'm going to do is get something with a British plug...
totally maddening, irrational, mickey mouse, like so much else in this topsy turvy country.
then when you pull one out of the wall, the whole fixture comes out with it, lol. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
I thought that was just my apartment...